Maher Mezher, Managing Director

Maher Mezher

Managing Director

Innovators League

Lieu
Liban - Beyrouth
Éducation
Doctorat, Business Administration
Expérience
30 years, 4 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :30 years, 4 Mois

Managing Director à Innovators League
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2014

- Developed full fledge innovation strategies for leading entities in the region.

- Developed & delivered a fully interactive Innovation workshop to hundreds of executives in the region.

- Developed & registered novel innovation ideas in more than one IPO.

Head of Marketing, Communication, Retail & Delivery Channels à First National Bank sal - Group
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 2008 à septembre 2014

• Launched for the first time in the world the Fertility Loan positioning the bank as the most innovative & gaining worldwide recognition.

• Launched a pioneer online regional loyalty program rewarding several types of products & operations.

• Developed & executed a detailed Bancassurance strategy & plan of action leading to a 157% sales growth from the annual target.

• Implemented a state of the art electronic banking services in a short period offering convenience to customers through e-delivery channels.

• Developed & started implementing a 3 years CRM strategy for the Group.

• Implemented an interactive call center built on the latest Cisco system connected to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM conducting Inbound, outbound calls & customer surveys.

• Launched the professional certificates loan in collaboration with the order of engineers in Lebanon as an acquiring strategy.

• Automated the marketing departments' activities on CRM Microsoft Dynamics as a pioneer in the region.

Head of Retail & Marketing à Lebanon & GUlf Bank sal
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 2005 à janvier 2008

• Launched for the first time in Lebanon the SMS Account as a pioneer product in the Lebanese banking sector.

• Launched 5 new Bankassurance products leading the bank to the best sales performance award during 2006 among top ten Lebanese banks.

• Trained & managed the branches network employees on retail banking & excellence in customer service in order to spread the retail culture.

• Developed & implemented the Internet, Phone and SMS banking as a full fledge electronic banking services.

• Developed & implemented the branches management division with a 3 years strategy focusing on increasing the average order size of the existing customers.

Head of Retail & Marketing à Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries sal
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 2000 à janvier 2005

• Crafted a sales management plan for Bankassurance products in collaboration with Allianz- SNA that contributed to record sales growth that grew from 331 policies in 2003 to 1418 within 7 months during 2004.

• Revamped a special product for "Public Sector Employees" thus attracting new accounts that reached more than 10, 000 increasing customer retention & doubling deposits & loans.

• Developed & launched a "Customized Private Sector Package" which sold more than 1120 new accounts within 4 months.

• Developed in collaboration with the HR department a comprehensive "Customer Service Representative" program comprising new training, hiring practices as well as pertinent targets / incentives schemes to boost customer service & retail activities.

• Trained & masterminded branches sales efforts increasing cross selling rate from a 1.1 ratio to over 2.0 in most branches within the bank.

Head of CRM Unit
• Applied the CRM readiness assessment test on a representative sample of 1500 customers successfully, yielding a record 94% response level.

• Built a Data warehouse with a 360º customer view.

Customer Service Officer à Société Générale de Banque au Liban sal
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 1998 à janvier 2000

1998-2000
Société Générale de Banque au Liban sal
Customer service officer

• Rotated in all the branch operations: Forex, bills, transfers, current account transactions etc.
• Worked on building the customer database as a preparatory phase for CRM.
• Promoted retail and investment banking products.

Auditor - Comprehensive audit of three Major companies à Major Lebanese Auditing Firm
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 1994 à janvier 1998

Farid Gebran: Major Lebanese Auditing Firm
• Auditor - Comprehensive audit of three Major companies.

Éducation

Doctorat, Business Administration
  • à Walden University
  • décembre 2016

Walden University, US Degree: Doctorate of Business Administration, 2017.

Master, Marketing & Communication
  • à European School of Management
  • janvier 2008

European School of Management- ESCP- EAP, Paris Degree: Masters of science in Marketing & Communication, 2008.

Master, Marketing
  • à Ecole Supérieure des Affaires
  • janvier 2007

Ecole Supérieure des Affaires- ESA, Beirut Degree: Masters of science in Marketing, 2007.

Master,
  • à Newport University
  • janvier 2001

Newport University, US Degree: Masters of Business Administration, 2001.

Baccalauréat, Finance
  • à Saint Joseph University
  • janvier 1996

4 Years of Study in Finance & Accounting.

Specialties & Skills

Innovation
Training
Marketing
Microsoft CRM
Change Management
BANKING
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DATA WAREHOUSE
MARKETING
OPERATIONS

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert
Français
Expert
Italien
Moyen
Russe
Moyen

Adhésions

Fellow of the American Academy of Financial Management- AAFM / US, Instructor at the Bankers Academy -New York /US
  • Member

Formation et Diplômes

Certified Innovation Trainer (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Brand Management (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2005
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Certified ISO 9000/2000 Lead Auditor (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2002
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
CRM (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2003
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
ChFM- Chartered Financial Marketer (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2009
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999

Loisirs

  • Opera Singing ( World class Tenor), Reading & Swiming.